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But unlike Defoe's noble hero, Selkirk had been cast away for good reason: He was a violent, foul-tempered guy.
In Cast Away, Hanks plays the boss at a Federal Express office in Moscow who ends up stranded on a desert island.
The producers of the latest Tom Hanks movie Cast Away are going out their way to avoid the environmental controversy provoked by Leonardo DiCaprio's film The Beach.
Latest reports from the set of Cast Away on the Fijian island of Monuriki suggest that Cast Away Productions Inc - a partnership between Fox and Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks company - has taken precautions to safeguard its exotic location.
She gave her own televised "tea-party response" to Mr. Obama's 2011 State of the Union address, a moment that crystallized her distinctness from other House Republicans but also opened her to jokes on late-night TV, because she gave the speech with her eyes cast away from the camera.
Now, to India and the city of Mumbai where an entire cast of people toil away doing the city's laundry by hand.
The Hamilton affair refused to go away and continued to cast a shadow over the party, despite William Hague's instance that he would not put up with any sleaze.
Eight feet tall and twenty-four feet long, the specimen had been mounted in a predatory running position, with its arms out and its jaws open, as if determined to eat Lot No. 49220 a cast Komodo dragon, crouching ten yards away, on blue velvet.
Meanwhile, a growing cast of shows on cable networks are siphoning away a bigger share of the shrinking number who are tuning in overall.
These are the things you could enjoy, all cast into oblivion, because when you throw away money on wasted electricity, you throw away everything you could have bought with it.
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Ritchie directed the video for Madonna's "What it Feels Like for a Girl" and cast her in the lead role in 2002's "Swept Away", a remake of a 1974 Italian film of the same name.
Sure, other companies had given away product before to win customers, but the convention was to cast as wide a net as possible rather than to focus on the frequency of exposure to the product.
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Up until that final reel or two, the film mostly works, getting away with some poor characterization and iffy scripting via the sheer chemistry of its cast and the inventiveness of its action.
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Although time has ticked away, leaving virtually no chance of another candidate coming in, they will still cast around for a saviour.
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